The Gory Animated Movie Ending That Haunts Audiences
Out of every mature cartoon movies I have ever watched, no other has stuck with me quite like the dread-soaked finale of a explicitly bloody as well as deeply subversive film from 2022 Unicorn Wars.
Back in 2015’s, this Spanish writer-director created a grim, somber , often savage world with several minor , forlorn glimmers of optimism.
While Unicorn Wars seems like it stemmed from a drive to advance the medium further, the filmmaker explained that it was actually a try to convey a universal, cross-cultural message regarding “the mutual source of every conflict.”
This theme is expressed by means of a squad of colorful pastel bears , clearly modeled after a popular line of cuddly figures.
Being raised in a culture centered on militarism as well as the war machine, many of the bears are fixated on killing the mythical beasts, thanks to a sacred text that claims the bears they were once kings of the woodland, until the horned beings drove them out.
Some haven’t fully bought into the brainwashing, and choose to try out narcotics and mate in the forest.
Unlike their gentle equivalents, these colorful critters display sexual organs and obvious urges.
For one especially vicious, pessimistic creature, the bear named Bluey, the war with unicorns turns into a road to control — and particularly to authority above his more tender, kinder brother the bear Tubby.
Bluey behaves aggressively , an apparent antisocial figure , and as terror takes over his unit and kills his teammates sequentially, he grabs progressively control for himself, via progressively bloody, destructive ways.
Simultaneously, the horned creatures are experiencing their own horror, as a growing, deadly beast in their habitat.
“At the beginning, it appears as a humorous movie,” the filmmaker said. “Yet it evolves into a more intense and sorrowful film. And by the end, it becomes a scary feature.”
The Unicorn Wars commences resembling among the playful movies from a legendary animator, which find a mischievous joy in permitting cartoon characters curse, fire weapons, or have intimate relations.
Then it evolves into something more like a darker film from the same artist, including ever more explicit brutality and a palpable relation to genuine suffering of war.
In the finale, it is a full-on Grand Guignol massacre.
The fear which makes this an ideal spooky-season viewing kicks in much sooner than that description suggests.
The Unicorn Wars is suited for the most dedicated gorehounds, for lovers of intense movies who wish to view a film they’ve never watched previously, and who can handle a story which delivers no restraint.
View it with the lights off free from interruptions, and that ending will crawl into your mind and linger.
How to view: Available for rental or purchase on several online services.
